Poster whose daughter found a list of last 10 nicknames at her dad's place

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Have been trying to find the thread from yesterday which seems to have disappeared! Wanted to download and install the spyware and key advice but it all seems to have gone! Would appreciate help! Tx.

I think it was deleted. I suggest you report your own post to MNHQ and they might be able to tell you what's happening.

... but would MNHQ give me details of all the different spyware programmes which were mentioned on the thread? Btw, hope that OP and family are ok!

The thead was deleted, but spybot and malwarebytes (I think) were the programmes mentioned. Would link but have to go to bed.

Keylogger was one of them.

Maybe start a thread in chat asking for the names of the programmed and what you want to do? The way you've phrased your thread, it looks like you want to know what happened to the poster

Hi, it's really important to understand that 'keyloggers' are NOT like normal computer viruses. They hide deep in the computer operating system (in technical terms they have rootkit functionality).
It is highly unlikely that you will pick up the presence of a 'keylogger' with standard anti-virus or anti-malware software since rootkits run at the same privilege level as most of the anti-virus programmes themselves (spybot and malwarebytes certainly won't pick most up).

There are ways of detecting and getting rid of 'keyloggers' but unless you know what you are doing it's easy to accidently delete a bone fide system programme and screw up your operating system. If you believe someone may have downloaded a keylogger then I'd advise you to take it to a local computer expert. Make sure you tell them you are specificallly looking for a keylogger/rootkit and not just a simple virus.

Tx, everyone! Makes it a bit clearer to understand! Am a dinosaur.

PurplePidjin - yes, I wondered! All a bit strange!